LEA, a parish partly in the hundred of ST-BRIAVELLS,
county of GLOUCESTER, and partly in the hundred
of GREYTREE, county of HEREFORD, 4 miles
(E.S.E.) from Ross, containing 180 inhabitants. The
living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of
Gloucester, and diocese of Hereford, endowed with
£200 private benefaction, and £600 royal bounty,
and in the patronage of the President and Fellows
of St. John's College, Oxford. The church is dedicated
to St. John.